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Specs Toporcer
George Toporczer (as Toporcer'' ) (February 9, 1899 – May 17, 1989) was a professional baseball player and executive. He served primarily as a utility infielder during his eight seasons in Major League Baseball, playing for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1921 through 1928. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Toporcer is widely considered as the first major league baseball position player to wear eyeglasses on the playing field.〔(Spectacular players can wear spectacles )〕〔(Glasses Half Full )〕
== Early Life ==
From an early age, like most kids at the time, George Toporczer was obsessed with baseball. In an interview he admitted that for the last seventy five years scarce a day had gone by that he had not contemplated the sport. He stated that in spite of his obsession he was always picked last during childhood games because of his slight build and glasses. He went to school and becames friends with the actor Jimmy Cagney, staying in touch into the later portions of their life. George Toporczer said the first thing that hooked him into baseball was when he was six and went 1905 World Series. At the 1905 World Series he watched the Giants’ pitcher Christy Mathewson pitch in three shut out games. The experience was further reinforced by his two older brothers who, being diehard Giants fans, idolized the players, speaking of little else but the performance of their favorite team. The fanaticism of his older brother soaked into young George Toporczer and he too became a diehard Giants fan. He became so attached to the Giants that when they lost the pennant to the Cubs in 1908, due to Merkle’s Boner, he cried himself to sleep. By the time he was ten he would walk the five miles from his house to the Polo Grounds. Although the one cent allowance that his father, a shoe and boot seller, was not enough to get him a ticket, he found a spot on Coogan’s Bluff that he could take advantage of an open space in the roof of the Polo Grounds. Unlike most of his peers he was enthralled with what was called the ‘inside baseball’ which was the strategies and tactics. While still loving the Giant’s players, George Toporczer held a special admiration of the Giants’ manager John McGraw, who he considered the best of his time. Out of all of the Giants players George’s favorite was the left fielder George Burns. When he was thirteen George Toporczer got a job at a local saloon as a scorekeeper, writing down the scores of the baseball games in exchange for fifty cents and free meals. While in seventh grade George’s history teacher made a school baseball team but he was turned down from it because of his slight figure and his glasses. Even though he was not on the team he still went to all of their games to cheer them on. At one of these game he was the only one there to cheer the team on and the team was short one player so he was drafted into play centerfield. During that game he made a difficult catch and contributed two hits. Around this time George Toporczer’s father died and passed the business on his oldest son, George’s older brother. George had to forgo high school and help his brother run the shoe and boot store. By working at the store and picking up odd jobs on the side George Toporczer was making more than enough to buy tickets and would regularly go to the Polo Grounds.〔The Glory of Their Times, additional text.〕
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